Assignments

**Assignments from January 2012 Training: Due February 1 **
1. Select your LEA
 * RESEARCH TO PRACTICE: FOUNDATION TRAINING: UNIT 1 **
 * Unit 1 Assignments for All Participants: ** **Open the link below to find the Reading North Carolina EOG and EOC results. Once you open the link you will: **

 2. On the "Report" Box: Select "LEA Detail" and review the reading assessment data for your school system

 Next:

 Go back to the link.

 1. Select your LEA

 2. On the "Report" Box: Select "School Detail" and review your school's reading assessment data

 @http://accrpt.ncpublicschools.org/app/2010/ayp/

 __ [|Additional Assignments for Level 2 Participants] __

1. Review of a reading program using “Guidelines for Selecting an Effective Reading Program”
 * Unit 1 Additional Assignments for Level 2 Participants: **

 Guidelines for Selecting an Effective Program Handout (docx)

 Submit the completed review to the Reading Foundations Instructor.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> 2. Develop a presentation detailing the findings of your selected Federal Reading Report (select from below). This can be in a powerpoint format; a written description of the presentation; a handout or brochure from the training, etc. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">In addition, be sure to include:
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">The date of the presentation
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">A description of the group that received the presentation

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Early Literacy:

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">National Early Literacy Panel's Report <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> (PDF)


 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">or **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Adolescent Literacy Improving Adolescent Literacy:Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> (PDF)

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">What Content Area Teachers Should Know... <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> (PDF)

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Submit the presentation and description to the Reading Foundations Instructor.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Please select one of the articles below:

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Teacher Training

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Examining Promising Practices <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> (PDF)

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Academic Literacy <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> (PDF)

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">IDA_Position_Statement_Dyslexia_Treatment_Programs <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> (PDF)

=<span style="color: #2e401a; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">RESEARCH TO PRACTICE: FOUNDATION TRAINING: UNIT 2 = **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Unit 2 Assignments for All Participants ** <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Please read the "Causes of Severe Reading Difficulty and the Impact on Reading" article by clicking on the link below: <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Causes of Severe Reading Difficulty (PDF) __<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">A [|dditional Assignments for Level 2 Participants] __

=<span style="color: #2e401a; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">UNIT 2 ADDITIONAL ASSIGNMENTS FOR LEVEL 2 = **__<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Level 2 Participants Only __****<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">: Read "How Reading Rewires the Brain" by clicking on the link: ** **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">[|http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/11/how-reading-rewires-the-brain.htm] ** **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Read Chapter 1 “Research and Reading Disability” and Chapter 2 “Multisensory Structured Language Education” in ****__<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Multisensory Teaching of Basic Skills __****<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">(Birsh, 2nd Edition) ** **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Post a reply to the "How Reading Rewires the Brain" post by clicking on the link below (remember to include your name on the post): ** //<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Link coming soon... //

=<span style="color: #2e401a; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">RESEARCH TO PRACTICE: FOUNDATION TRAINING: UNIT 3 = **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Unit 3 Assignments for All Participants: ** **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">No required **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> assignments **Level One Participants.** __<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">[|Additional Assignments for Level 2 Participants] __

=<span style="color: #2e401a; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">RESEARCH TO PRACTICE: FOUNDATION TRAINING: UNIT 3 = <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Unit 3 Additional Assignments for Level 2 Participants:

<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Additional activity required for level 2 participants: Read Chapter 7 “Assessment of Basic Reading Skills” in Multisensory Teaching of Basic Skills (Birsh, 2nd Edition)

=<span style="color: #2e401a; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">RESEARCH TO PRACTICE: FOUNDATION TRAINING: UNIT 4 = <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Unit 4 Assignments for All Participants:

<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Structure of Language (PDF)

<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> [|Additional Assignments for Level 2 Participants]

=<span style="color: #2e401a; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">RESEARCH TO PRACTICE: FOUNDATION TRAINING: UNIT 4 = <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Unit 4 Additional Assignments for Level 2 Participants:

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Read Chapter 3 “Development of Oral Language and Its Relationship to Literacy” and Chapter 6 “The History and Structure of Written Language” in Multisensory Teaching of Basic Skills (Birsh, 2nd Edition)